At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

